Hello All, Hope this is the correct forum. I have a XP desktop that is a P4 2.4ghz with one gig of RAM and it runs a VB application that takes an email message, parses out a bunch of information writes some of it to two different Excel spreadsheets, prints a summary, opens and creates a word document, etc... I want to migrate this machine to a VM in Parallels on a new Mac. Would this XP machine running on a Mac Mini 2.0ghz give me better or worse performance then the non-virtualized Pentium? Thanks for any recommendations, tim
If Windows XP is not OEM version you can use 2 way 1. Download Windows transporter from http://download.parallels.com/deskt...pdate1.hotfix1/Parallels-Transporter-3540.exe and install it on Windows , start agent Initiate Transporter from mac and agent on Windows, and perform migration 2. You can perform migration inplace, Transporter and agent should be started on WIndows (the same package) Then transfer VM to Mac OS, For more information please refer to http://www.parallels.com/download/file/desktop/v4/docs/en/Parallels_Transporter_Users_Guide.pdf
John, Thanks for the post. I figured out how to migrate the machine, I was looking at what kind of hardware I would need for similar performance to the P4. Tim
I suppose if you are migrating from 2.4 to 2.0 there will be some performance degradation,but hope it won't be more than 5-10%
Pentium 4 performance is not directly comparable in GHz terms to Core Solo/Duo/2 Duo. A Core Solo CPU (1 core) should perform generally faster than a P4 at the same clock speed.
